The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-10-26
Prentice milford Writes About the Cook
ing of Irish Mos.

prentice lINilNih Wits .hNNAh ftA' Jun
ing af Irish Mos.
Especial Correspondence.
SrAscONsEr. Nantucket. Oct % The
beach here j, streWn with Irish moss had
heard IL made blanc mango / dreamt of
blanc mango, the color of SNOW, and being 40
times culinary in tendency. determined 10
try il on gathered halt "a peck of moss !
washed it n clean as "a man can wash any
thing. They told me 10 stew 10 ina milk.
stewed It in half gallon of milk. As 20
stewcd il swelled ] put DO 100 the largest
saucepan | could find 10 swelIed ovemuch
for that saucepan | reduced the quantity
TO the waste of some milk. Still 10 sweiled
The more stirred il the more il stewed and
the more it swclled IL reminded me of "a
dish Of village scandal, which the more BIZ is
agitated az tea tables and Dorcas sewing soci-
eties the more it grows. The moss boiled 40
last 20 a pasty mas, the color OF snow. il is
true, but the color of snow only after 10
has lain few hours in an inhabited pig pen,
not 1.-THE beautiful snow / Favored 10 with
some sugar and little rum II regret now thc
rum / put in it it was dead loss Then
dipped il out and put 10 In molds After
AoIlE hI ~ AdN UlNlAN hlA'AF MEAt AZ NIN'
house, / found there was still more blaD
mango; in fact more than ever in the sauce
pan Ii seemed lo posses "a wonderful quality
for evolving more and more out Of itself
| filed all the available tea cups ia the house,
and almost everything else that was hollow
speculated meanwhile on what am enormous
quantity 81 this delicate food was drifting on
Nantuckets shores, and used only for
fertiizing the soil. You see ] hadn't set
tasted Of my mess / served out one mold
for dinner II didn't look savory on delicate.
Il was muddy In color, with black specks i'm
it here and there, suggestive of dead flies
These we're not dead flies They We're the
black roots of the moss, which had not
chopped of and which would not dissolve
Then tasted st / tasted small part OF one
spoonful That was enough That satisfied
me have had all | want Of stewed -ea
weed. sugar and rum. know not after this
what others may ask bot as for me give ne
liberty and death and rum without
the sea weed on sugar However /
gave my moss mess another trial.
Or rather, kept a mold OF IL ON the
table, thinking my capriciOns appetite
might take a fancy 10 IT, No 1t inclined
the other way TIE very smell Of the thing
went against me. Lastly, / could not abide
its sight I discharged the entire lot. /
tumbled thirty-two Inolds OF blanc mango,
in shape resembling about every hollow ves-
sel had in tho house, into the swill barrel
| cooked it seems, for Mr. Folgers pigs 5lr
Folger comes round daily aud takes our table
refuse away He is one Of the Nantucket
Folgers and a distant relative OF our former
secretary OF the treasury. There are several
FolgeI families still on Nantucket IL is ono
OF the principal industries OF the island 10
produce Folgers as well as Collins and Star
bucks. There is plenty Of moss still on The
shore. Plenty OF fresh moss is daily washing
in. IL is here free for every one that Thirst
eth But a. for me | would not enter on my
list Of friends, though graced with polished
manners and fine sense, the man who would
heedleSsly set before me a mess of moss
PRENTICE MILFORD